Glossary term
What is Sprint?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Sprint" means: A fixed period of one month or less in which a Scrum team makes a usable piece of work. It is taught in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship. Related terms include Scrum, Product backlog, Agile and User story. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Sprint?
A fixed period of one month or less in which a Scrum team makes a usable piece of work.
Where is Sprint taught?
Sprint is defined in Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship.
Which lessons cover Sprint?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 5.3: Size the Stories and Plan a Sprint
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship, lesson 5.4: Run the Sprint and Learn from It
Which terms are related to Sprint?
Next to Sprint in the course glossaries: Scrum, Product backlog, Agile, User story, Earned value, Story points, Expected monetary value (EMV) and Velocity.
ScrumProduct backlogAgileUser storyEarned valueStory pointsExpected monetary value (EMV)Velocity
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Sprint?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Project Management and Agile: Run Projects That Ship: None. You do not need any project management experience.